Delay between Power button and POST

[Karen Lynn]

My current build is a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 R5, Corsair 850W Modular, AMD FX-4350, 16gb G.Skill sniper series RAM, and Samsung EVO 850 SSD as the primary boot drive(Seagate secondary for data storage).

Whenever I hit the power button, the lights and fans flick, go off, then about five seconds later, the system actually posts and boots. I'm curious if there's an issue I can't discern going on; or if this is normal. If not normal, is there a way to discern the cause? Could it just be a BIOS setting?

 

This issue was present in this build back when I was using a 650w, and it is still present now with the current psu.

It doesn't seem to do anything else besides annoy me.

[Mr.Meerkat]

Sounds fine and probably is fine as that's just it checking the RAM, CPU and whatever making sure the computer can actually boot. 

[waynedud3]

This is a normal thing computers do when checking components, and is nothing to worry about. Every UD3 Board I have used has done this.

[Karen Lynn]

Alright, so it exists to annoy me. Gotcha.